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A Bethlehem Township man was jailed on charges he broke his fiancee's nose and knocked out two of her teeth during a domestic assault in his Santee Road home Wednesday night. Michael Mabus, 54, of the 3200 block of Santee Road, was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment. Township police said when they responded at the home about 10 p.m., a woman with a bloody nose and mouth was standing across the street from the house with friends. Police said she alleged Mabus punched her in the mouth, causing her to fall to the floor, and banged her head against the floor and kicked her. She was treated at a local hospital, and Mabus was taken into custody.

An Allentown woman who admitted in court Wednesday that she sexually molested a 13-year-old boy was released on her own recognizance to await sentencing. Elizabeth Aponte, 29, pleaded guilty before Lehigh County Judge William E. Ford to statutory sexual assault, a third-degree felony. She will be sentenced in about 90 days, following a Megan's Law evaluation. As part of a plea bargain, Aponte will serve her sentence in the county jail and her minimum term will be no more than 111/2 months.

By Pamela Lehman, Of The Morning Call and By Pamela Lehman, Of The Morning Call | June 24, 2014

Bethlehem Township police said a man assaulted his mother and punched holes in a door Monday after she refused to give him a ride to the gym. Matthew Joseph Colabella, 19, is charged with simple assault and harassment. Colabella, of the 3600 block of Nicholson Road, was sent to Northampton County Prison under $5,000 bail. According to court records: Police were called at 5 p.m. by Colabella's mother, Angela Colabella. She told police her son had asked for a ride to the gym and she was unable to take him. Angela Colabella said her son threatened her and she went into her bedroom and locked the door.

A man is charged with assaulting his daughter Monday as they visited a dying relative at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest. Richard J. Wiedecke, 59, of New Jersey, attacked his daughter after becoming belligerent and loud in the neurological intensive care unit and she asked him to keep his voice down, according to court records. They were there to visit an uncle who was in grave condition, police said. Wiedecke hit his daughter, Jessica Mayer, on the cheek and left ear, knocking off an earring, police said.

A man broke down his brother-in-law's door and assaulted him with a steak knife Monday night, Bethlehem police said. Andrew Scott Brunell, 29, is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, burglary, reckless endangerment, harassment, terroristic threats, criminal trespass, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. Brunell, of the 1300 block of North 14 t h Street in Whitehall, is in Northampton County Prison under $25,000 bail. According to court records: When officers arrived about 7:45 p.m., the rear door of Gerald Achey's home in the 1800 block of Levering Place appeared to be forced open and the frame was damaged.

A Lehigh County Jail inmate charged with assaulting his girlfriend wrote her a letter asking her to lie about the alleged assault so the charges would be dropped, according to court records. Zachary M. Harding, 21, of Whitehall Township, ended the letter by asking, "Baby will you marry me?" and drew a picture of a ring, according to court records. The girlfriend replied by taking the letter to Whitehall police Friday, leading to a felony charge of intimidation of witnesses against Harding.

An Allentown man banned from Silhouettes Showbar in Coopersburg last week returned to the club Saturday night and assaulted a dancer in the parking lot outside, police said. Thomas E. Cross, 47, of 2421 Allenbrook Drive, showed up at the club at 111 E. Station Avenue on Saturday night and was asked to leave, court papers say. Witnesses said Cross implied that he had a gun before leaving with a dancer, court papers say. Once outside, Cross choked the woman, pulled her hair and hit her in the face, police said.

An Allentown man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl over several months. Daniel Montanez, 50, of the 800 block of South 11 t h Street, was arrested last Wednesday night after police found him slumped over on the rear porch of a home in the 900 block of Gordon Street, court records say. Police said they found five packets of heroin in his pocket. He was charged Thursday with aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, possession of heroin and public drunkenness.

After a Lower Saucon Township police officer gave a man a ride home, the man then struck the officer, according to court records. Timothy Allen Mihalek, 33, of Bethlehem, is charged with aggravated assault, harassment and simple assault. He is in Northampton County Prison under $40,000 bail. According to court records: Police said just before 3 a.m., Mihalek was being dropped off at his home by Lower Saucon Township police Officer David Roxberry. Police said earlier in the evening, Mihalek was intoxicated while at a bagel store on Friedensville Road.